Monday, May 6, 2013

A US Senator has stated on record that he believes the Department of Homeland
Security is intentionally attempting to exhaust civilian supplies of ammunition
by buying huge bulk amounts, as documented by Infowars for some months.

Appearing on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC in New York, Sen. Jim
Inhofe, R-Okla. said that the Obama administration was attempting to “dry up the
market” and deprive gun owners of bullets.

“We have in this country the Second Amendment that preserves the right to
keep and bear arms, and the president doesn’t believe in that.” Inhofe said.

“President Obama has been doing everything he could to stop the private
ownership of guns in America,” the Senator added. “Yet he’s been voted down in a
big way by a large majority, and so my feeling is that he’s doing this to buy up
[ammunition] so honest, law-abiding citizens here in the United States, like my
son, can’t even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much.”

“We had someone testify the other day the DHS has the ‘right’ – this is a
bureaucrat who said this – they have the ‘right’ to buy as much as they want,
and they’re planning to buy 750 million rounds,” Inhofe said, referring to a
House committee hearing last week, during which the DHS’s chief procurement
officer denied that the agency was stockpiling ammunition, while simultaneously
admitting that the huge open orders had been submitted.

Inhofe pointed out that the amount of ammunition on order “is more than three
times the amount our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation.”

As we recently reported, the DHS announced plans to purchase
another 360,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition to add to the roughly 2 billion bullets already bought over the past
year.

In addition, last week, The DHS released a market survey asking companies if
they are able to provide 2 million rounds of ammunition within a short time
period, increasing concerns that the federal agency is continuing its arms build
up even further.

“This has never happened in this country before. We’ve never had government
trying to take that much control at the expense of law-abiding citizens. And
we’re not going to let it happen.” Inhofe added.

Despite the official denials backed up by unquestioning media reports that
the DHS is buying an abnormal amount of bullets, the Government Accountability
Office announced last week that an investigation of
the purchases is “just getting underway.”

Two weeks ago, Inhofe introduced legislation into the Senate that would limit
such stockpiling of bullets by federal agencies.

The bill, known as the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability Act, or
AMMO act for short, would stop short of limiting the Department of Defense on
ammo purchases, but would prevent the DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) from purchasing or storing more ammunition than those agencies
retained on average between 2001 and 2009.

Speaking about the legislation, Inhofe noted:

“It’s designed to have the Government Accounting Office inventory not the
Defense Department but all other departments that use weaponry,” Inhofe said,
“as to what they’re doing in terms of the amount of ammunition they have bought
to dry up the market for honest, law-abiding citizens.”